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Kate: Upper Firth Of Clyde

Lugger (19th Century)

Site Name Kate: Upper Firth Of Clyde

Classification Lugger (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'Near Kempoch Point'; Kempock Point; Gourock Bay; Inner Clyde Estuary; Kate

Canmore ID 220251

Site Number NS27NW 8073

NGR NS 24 78

NGR Description NS c. 24 78

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Inverclyde
  • Parish Maritime - Inverclyde
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NS27NW 8073 c. 24 78

N55 58 W4 49

NLO: Kempock Point [name: NS 242 780]

Gourock Bay [name centred NS 247 777]

Gourock [name: NS 230 770].

Location formerly entered as NS c. 242 780 [N55 57.8 W4 49].

Possibly on map sheet NS27NE.

Not to be confused with NS16NE 8024.

18 September 1898. KATE, 10 years, not reg., wood lugsail pleasure boat, 2 ton, none on board. J. Teale, Gourock. Moored in Gourock Bay, ballast. Wind NW8. Near Kempoch [Kempock] Point. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 691).

(Classified as wooden lugsail [lugger], in ballast: date of loss cited as 18 September 1898). Kate: this vessel was driven from moorings and stranded near Kempoch [Kempock] Point. Capt. Teale.

Not registered. Built 1888. 2 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 57.00 W4 49.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 December 2004.

Activities

Loss (18 September 1898)

18 September 1898. KATE, 10 years, not reg., wood lugsail pleasure boat, 2 ton, none on board. J. Teale, Gourock. Moored in Gourock Bay, ballast. Wind NW8. Near Kempoch [Kempock] Point. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 691).

(Classified as wooden lugsail [lugger], in ballast: date of loss cited as 18 September 1898). Kate: this vessel was driven from moorings and stranded near Kempoch [Kempock] Point. Capt. Teale.

Not registered. Built 1888. 2 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 57.00 W4 49.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (6 December 2004)

(Location entered as NS c. 24 78 [N55 58 W4 49]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 December 2004.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 3230

Name : KATE

Latitude : 555700

Longitude : 44900

Date Built : 1888

Registration : Not Registered

Type : LUGSAIL (WOOD)

Tonnage : 2

Loss Day : 18

Loss Month : 9

Loss Year : 1898

Comment : Driven from moorings and stranded near Kempoch Point. Capt. Teale

Cargo : BALLAST

Named Location (Nlo) (22 March 2012)

NLO: Kempock Point [name: NS 242 780]

Gourock Bay [name centred NS 247 777]

Gourock [name: NS 230 770].

Location formerly entered as NS c. 242 780 [N55 57.8 W4 49].

Possibly on map sheet NS27NE.

Not to be confused with NS16NE 8024.

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